"The Truth About Plagiarism Reading Response."

·         This article is all about plagiarism. Most of the plagiarism is to be thought of as a crime. Some of the plagiarism is mostly from professors and students.  Plagiarism is all around society from books that turned into movies, stories, and even musicians. Plagiarism has expanded from the authors of history that used to be anonymous on article letters. Plagiarism has been committed more than once from several different people, and it’s about time it starts looking like a crime more than just an accident.  The author stated some central arguments by talking about plagiarism are a form of fraud. He thinks it’s not right for someone to enhance their ability form someone else’s work that has already been done.  He then gives examples of what plagiarism is about, and how it’s compared to littering. He gave some reason to why there is confusion, and states the public is common for plagiarizing to. The author talks about what literal copying is and what it could be with examples such as, Romeo and Juliet, musicians, quotes, and books that have been all plagiarized into someone else work.

 

 

·         I really don’t think the author Richard Posner did well. I think he could of talked more about the plagiarism, and gave more examples on why he chose to pick the teachers, and professors to be using the most plagiarism. I say this because I really didn’t understand his point very well until the middle of the article. I was a little bit confused and lost; I had to keep rereading to fully understand his point well enough to put it into my own terms. Some of the assumptions I see the author making is the plagiarism should be treated like a crime. It should not be ok and it should not be used by anyone who is writing the ideas should come from yourself, and ideas no one else thought of before. He said that it has become modern in society for people to use plagiarism. I think they the author is saying that the public deserves information that is true and new, and he said the public should be protected from the copycats that try to bum other people’s efforts into their own work and claim it themselves. I would say some of the holes in this argument would be how does he know plagiarism is detected? Is the people who turn poems into songs, or books into movies considered to be plagiarism. From who, how do people know when someone else copied work that’s has already been published. Should plagiarism be considered like the comparison the author used with the judge to the law? Or was that just thrown in the story because the author is a federal judge?

·         I agree with this author because, I don’t think plagiarism should be allowed. I don’t think someone should be able to make someone else published work into their own. I don’t think anyone should steal ideas; they should be new and unique to keep a world pool of new information flowing around. I think a judge and journalist should try to prevent the plagiarism from anyone trying to do it. I agree that no one should try to enhance their reputation by using someone else work; also the plagiarism should be a punishment to anyone who confines in it. I think this article affects my think about school because; it makes me think about some of the teachers that uses PowerPoint’s and copy the words straight out the book that’s not into their own words. I think that every student should be getting a zero with any plagiarism that occurs on the papers because that’s only fair.

·         My golden line from this article would be “The real victim of his fraud is not the person whose work he copies, but those of his competitors who scruple to enhance their own reputations by such means.” I picked this line because I strongly agree that someone is not a victim unless someone had made copies and took his own work into his own. I don’t think someone should use someone else work to enhance their own, if that’s the case they don’t need to be writing anything important besides a person journal. If you need someone else ideas then you’re not using your own thoughts from your own brain, and you shouldn’t be writing.